An Italian Education by Tim Parks
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Tim Parks's best seller, Italian Neighbors, offered a sparkling, witty, and acutely observed account of an expatriate's life in a small village outside of Verona. Now in An Italian Education, Parks continues his chronicle of adapting to Italian society and culture, while raising his Italian-born childre ...Show more
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other sid ...Show more
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox by Victoria Finlay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Part travelogue, part narrative history, Colour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poi ...Show more
Dublin : A Traveller's Reader by Valerie Thomas; Pakenham Pakenham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'Unforgettable . . . no better compilers could have been found' - History Today 'Dublin's past comes dazzlingly alive' - Publishing News 'Erudite and practical simultaneously' - Gemma Hussey, Irish Independent Dublin's turbulent history, its intensely literary and theatrical character of long literary l ...Show more
Walking the Himalayas: An Adventure of Survival and Endurance by Levison Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Levison Wood has breathed new life into adventure travel.' Michael Palin 'Levison Wood is a great adventurer and a wonderful storyteller' Sir Ranulph Fiennes Bestselling author of Walking the Nile 'Levison Wood is "bewildered ...Show more
Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Here is an informative and entertaining guide to everything that any tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Rome in AD 200. You need only pack your imagination and a toothbrush - this guide provides the rest, describing all the best places to stay and shop, what to do, and what to avoid. Br ...Show more
The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K Fisher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A classic of gastronomic writing that redefined the genre, The Gastronomical Me is a memoir of travel, love and loss, but above all hunger.
Songlines and Fault Lines by Morrison, Glenn
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful and disturbing- wilderness, desire, an ancient philosophy of home, and the confusing countenance of the Australian frontier, a meeting place of black and white, ancient and modern. Songlines and Fault Lines ...Show more
The Travel Survival Guide - Get Smart, Stay Safe by Lloyd Figgins
$14.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The rewards you can reap from exploring this amazing planet are incalculable. Every year, more and more of us are discovering the joy, the excitement, the sheer sense of adventure in roaming the world. But travelling, particularly to the more remote and volatile corners of the globe, can be a dangerous ...Show more
The Climb : Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev
$18.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In May 1996 a number of expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. Each group contained world class climbers and relative novices, some of whom had paid tens of thousands of pounds for the climb. As they neared the summit twenty-three men and women, including the expediti ...Show more
Ascent by Chris Bonington
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
BRITAIN'S GREATEST CLIMBER. 'He is the David Attenborough of mountaineering . . . Bonington's most personal memoir yet.' The Times. 'This is a compelling tale of fortitude and endurance.' - The Sunday Times 'He is the icon of British climbing.' The Daily Mirror Sir Chris Bonington memoir Ascent will ...Show more
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic." --Pico Iyer A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road--an illuminating and thought-pr ...Show more